Girl power! This week we meet Staci, a 30 yr old mother of two. Staci describes herself as being bigger than the biggest person on The Biggest Loser. I think she’s being a bit hard on herself. Staci is Wonder Woman. In addition to taking care of her two kids, she helps take care of her husband who is partially paralyzed from a stroke. Staci is overwhelmed and to save time she often cuts corners by feeding her family almost exclusively fast food. Staci really needs this intervention.
At her first weigh-in, Staci comes in at 456 lbs. The week long boot camp shows Staci is ready to fight for her health. Something about these boot camps always cause people to break down and have an epiphany. I for one am rooting for her :-). Once again we see them working with a nutritionist but the viewer is left out of the loop. Are we supposed to wait for Chris’s book to come out to learn his secret to weight loss? If that’s the case, I’ll pass. These little teasers leave me NOT wanting more.
After boot camp, Chris and his back pack join Staci for a an alleged 3 month stay. Chris has given Staci the customary at home gym and then comes the announcement of the challenge. Staci must lose 100 lbs and her reward will be a nanny. Cool! A nanny is worth more than gold to a working mom. The weigh-in arrives and Staci does it plus 6 lbs! Yeah for Staci. Proud of her accomplishment, Staci arranges to meet with her mother for lunch to have a heart to heart. The only problem is Staci’s mom doesn’t have a friggin heart. This woman is so cold and it was very sad to see Staci practically beg her mom for praise.
We get treated to a montage of Staci discussing her new eating habits and working out with her cute little girl. Weigh-in #2 has Staci needing to lose 60 lbs. She meets this goal and is ecstatic to be under 300 lbs for the first time in years. Chris has arranged for Staci to train with the Dallas Fire Dept for a day. Staci realizes how strong she has become during this challenge, there is vomit at one point, but she completes the training :-). Chris gives Staci another 60 lb goal in order to qualify for skin reduction surgery. This time around Staci appears to be losing momentum. Household chores begin piling up and Staci reunites with her old friend, the bbq shack. Staci knows she’s backsliding and in a talking head Chris reveals she hasn’t been returning his calls or emails. The 3rd weigh-in shows Staci not only didn’t lose weight, she gained 4 lbs. Chris wanted Staci to lose 220 +lbs but Staci reveals she’d just be happy with 200 lbs. Way to sell yourself short with a celebrity trainer at your disposal, girlfriend :-(. I can smell the self sabotage thru my t.v. screen…
The final weigh-in rolls around and not only has Staci lost weight, her husband who looked approx. 30-40 lbs overweight has lost 100 lbs himself! Happy happy joy joy :-D. Staci arrives looking hot to death. The scale tells us she achieved her personal cop out goal of 200 lbs. 200 lbs is nothing to sneeze at and I’m happy for her. I just wonder how far she could have gone if she hadn’t given up 2/3’s of the way in. The credits at the end tell us she is continuing to lose weight. I really hope there is a follow up show and we get to see Staci under 200 lbs.
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Thanks TLD 🙂 I agree with you about smelling the self sabotage through the screen she needs to see a therapist because she needs an emotional outlet. I wonder if she kicking herself for not loosing the weight to win the skin reduction surgery and I am also wondering why they do the surgery before the person meets their goal weight? I hope she gets down to a healthy weight because being at 200 pounds is still not healthy and she has come to far to stop now.
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I watched most of this episode but I still can’t get into this show. I don’t think one show is enough time for the audience to get vested in the success of the participant. Plus it still really has that whole scripted feeling.
I too would really like to see a reunion show. Maybe if they let the audience know ahead of time that we would be seeing these individuals later I would get more interested in them.
If I had gotten that heavy I would think the surgery would be the ultimate goal and I would want to move heaven and earth to get it. I wonder if those that didn’t get it on the show will still be able to get it after the fact for a reunion or follow-up episode.
Does anyone have good plans for the weekend? It is going to be hotter than hell here. Tomorrow will be 101 with a heat index of around 117. My butt will be in the pool most of the day I am sure.
Thanks Buffywood.
Good evening everyone 🙂 I hope you all had a great weekend. Man I am having a hard time dropping weight uggggh! Any ideas to help me move the scale down?
Funny you should mention that, I’m in the middle of an experiment on that topic and plan to blog about it in a few weeks. But in the mean time I would suggest the following:
A. Change the activities you do for your workout. Try a class (or two) that you’ve been curious about and add it to your rotation.
B. Add a 30 min workout video to your daily routine to up your calorie burn.
C. Split your workouts into two sessions a day. Sometimes we power through a session and then are inactive the rest of the day. Doing a split may rev your metabolism to burn throughout the day.
D. Do exercise spurts during commercial breaks while watching tv. Jog in place, jumping jacks, push ups, etc
And remember, those last few lbs are ALWAYS the hardest to lose! 😀
Thank you so much TLD! I will take a water jogging class tomorrow its for an hour then I will do my run in the evening. I have been curious about the water jogging class for a while now so this is a perfect time to try it out. I am getting ready to watch the RHWONY reunion and I will jog in place during commercials great idea.
Ok so this morning I went and did the water jogging class, and O.M.G! It was hard but super awesome! The gym I go to has a water park outside with a lazy river and in this class we have to jog against the currant and they crank up the flow as the class goes along. My heart rate was up the whole time and I got a much better workout running in the water for an hour then I do doing a long run on land. I felt so good I know I’m going to drop some lbs in this class. I was so super motivated again that I even stayed and did Water Zumba which was fun I have no rhythm especially doing it in the water lol. I’m going back tonight for 30 min of water jogging and then 30 min of water boxing which I love it really helped define my shoulders. Have any of you guys tried any of these classes?
Your gym sounds awesome. None of those classes except Water Zumba (just recently added) is offered in my area. The aqua classes that are offered are “Silver Sneaker” themed. The pool program is qreatly neglected ;-). I think they assume everyone goes to the beach to swim and surf.
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